Shaheen Sardar Ali 
Modern Challenges to Islamic Law [PDF ebook] 

This new book advances a fresh philosophical account of the relationship between the legislature and courts, opposing the common conception of law, in which it is legislatures that primarily create t …

This is the first book to explore the canonical narratives, stories, examples, and ideas that legal decisionmakers invoke to explain family law and its governing principles. Jill Elaine Hasday shows …

William Blackstone»s Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69) is perhaps the most elegant and influential legal text in the history of the common law. By one estimate, Blackstone has been cited …

In this landmark publication, the world»s leading expert in the legal system of Saudi Arabia explains and documents the uncodified principles of contract, tort, and property that frame the business …

This essential handbook on international arbitration has been updated to include a new chapter on investment treaty arbitration, detailing the kind of investments which are covered by investment trea …

This book analyses the legal regimes governing bank crisis management in the EU, UK, and US, discussing the different procedures and tools available as well as the regulatory architecture and the aut …

The book provides a comparative analysis of the law relating to remedies for breach of contract. It examines different remedies such as specific performance and damages, doing so from the viewpoint o …

Constitutionalising Secession proceeds from the question, »What, if anything, does the law have to say about a secession crisis?» But rather than approaching secession through the optic of politica …

2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the grant at Runnymede of Magna Carta.The story of how Magna Carta came into being , and has been interpreted since, and its impact on individual rights and consti …

Why do judges study legal sources that originated outside their own national legal system, and how do they use arguments from these sources in deciding domestic cases? Based on interviews with judges …